Medieval Warwickshire wills and probates

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Medieval Warwickshire wills and probates

Legg inn av Gjest » 24 mar 2007 16:43:14

I am researching families in Coventry and Warwickshire in 1400's
Coventry was a large wealthy trading town then and I would expect
a lot of probate records,
I had studied Kent and various courts have wills in that period.

I haven't found any published will indexes earlier than 1500.
Have wills and probates not survived before 1500 ?
thanks
Jim

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Re: Medieval Warwickshire wills and probates

Legg inn av Gjest » 25 mar 2007 10:23:02

On 24 Mrz., 16:43, jgnl-demp...@att.net wrote:
I am researching families in Coventry and Warwickshire in 1400's
Coventry was a large wealthy trading town then and I would expect
a lot of probate records,
I had studied Kent and various courts have wills in that period.

I haven't found any published will indexes earlier than 1500.
Have wills and probates not survived before 1500 ?
thanks
Jim

The Lichfield Records Office site states that their probate records
only go back to "c1490"; their records cover the archdeaconry of
Coventry. According to the Atlas & Index of Parish Registers, the
remaining Warwickshire wills are at Worcester, because the south of
the county was in the probate jurisdiction of the archdeaconry of
Worcester. The Worcester Records Office site states they hold wills
for the Consistory Court back to 1451.

There are printed indices for both, published in the British Records
series - vol 7 is Lichfield wills, including Warwickshire, 1510-1652,
and vol 31 is Worcestershire wills, including Warwickshire,
1451-1600. I don't know that either of these is available online
(although the volumes themselves are available for purchase from the
BRS as reprints). And then there is the PCC, of course, where an
online search can be made by place and date.

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